What's What! Video Game Facts (91/100)

The first cross-platform "Facebook-to-Mobile" social-network game was developed in 2011 by a Finnish company Star Arcade, the land of the lakes it also saw this idea born from the hand of the this innovative company, in fact Angry Birds the game that causes a stir and reached the great fame it has now, was created by Finnish company Rovio Entertainment.

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we hit upon the problem that gamers around the world used all kinds of mobile devices, but never had the chance to play against each other due to lack of cross-platform compatibility. So, in our first year we developed and launched the world's first Facebook-to-mobile game. So, in our first year we developed and launched the world’s first Facebook-to-mobile game.

Social video games are a type of video games that use social networks to play online and share achievements with people from different places but to achieve some result in these games, players need to involve as many friends in them as possible in some case, a game goals may only be possible if a player shares his game.

As a personal example the truth is I has never be interested in this type of games, the dependence and the social environment has not really caught my attention, ironically being a big fan of world of warcraft games, but I know many people who are almost Addicted to games like FarmVille, Mafia Wars and CityVille, of course being Facebook the biggest initiator in social video games